A configuration-interaction calculation for XeF2 shows that the valence-bond structures which incorporate the 5dz2 orbital at xenon contribute approximately 69% of the total wave function and that the resonance of F–Xe+F– and F–Xe+–F based on the 5pz orbital at xenon contributes only about 16% of the total wave function.
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